THE FILIPINO MIND

MISSION: To foster FILIPINO NATIONALISM. "Shake the foundations." Seek knowledge/understand/think critically about roots of socioeconomic-political predicaments in our homeland; educate ourselves, expose lies/hidden truths and fight IGNORANCE of our true history. Learn from: our nationalist heroes/intellectuals/Asian neighbors/other nations;therefrom to plan/decide/act for the "common good" of the native [Malay/indio] Filipino majority. THIS BLOG IS NOT FOR PROFIT.

Thursday, March 06, 2025

UNDESTANDING THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CONFLICT/WAR (FEBRUARY 2022 to PRESENT). SUGGESTED READINGS (more in progress)

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To understand an important issue, we need to know its history and how it came about. Of course, the historical background must be vetted and...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

OUR WORLD: THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE/UNITED KINGDOM

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THE COLONIZER AND THE COLONIZED End of Empire chronicled the last days of British rule around the globe, through the remarkably candid remin...

THE ORIGINS OF THE NEOCONS AND THEIR LUNATIC WORLD VIEW - Prof. Michael Brenner, University of Pittsburgh

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  Professor of International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh; a Senior Fellow at the Center for Transatlantic Relations, SAIS-Johns ...
Saturday, September 16, 2023

THE MYTH OF THE "INDISPENSABLE NATION."

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  “If we have to use force, it is because we are America; we are the indispensable nation. We stand tall and we see further than other count...
Monday, August 21, 2023

POVERTY IN THE ADVANCED/DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: THE UNITED STATES AND WESTERN EUROPE

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OUR WORLD: GLOBALIZATION AND ITS DISCONTENTS "Some believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the Uni...
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Bert M. Drona
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FILIPINO NATIONALISM -is the bottom line;sine-qua-non for the common good of the native (Malay/Indio)Filipino majority. Nationalism must precede any plan/action in dealing with globalization. EDUCATION- being educated is beyond just being schooled towards a profession or practical vocation; we need the Humanities/liberal arts to develop/apply CRITICAL ANALYSIS/THINKING to understand, identify, plan, act & safeguard the needed fundamental and/or systemic changes towards economic/political progress, social justice, and social transformation. GOVERNMENT - its raison d'etre is to lead/serve the native majority, foster nationalism via its institutions, ensure the masses are critically literate to have real democracy. FREEDOM & DISSENT - free thought is necessarily aggressive and critical; we protect the freedom to discover truth; we encourage dissent, not for sentimental reasons, but because we cannot live without it. PATRIOTISM is NOT: " My country, right or wrong;" but " if right, to be kept right; if wrong, to be set right!" RELIGION/BELIEFS: No Deus ex Machina. No established religion. Humanism/Existentialism.
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